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ANTONIO vIAE, on ROME, ITALY.

.WATER-CLOSET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 535,967, dated March19, 1895. Application filed March 19, 1894. Serial No. 504,225. (Nomodel.) Patented in Italy January 9, 1894, LXIX, 274, XXVIII,

To all whom t may cov/wem: Be it known that I, ANTONIO VIALE, a citizenof Italy, and a resident of the city of Rome,

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Italy, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inWater-Closets, (for which I have obtained Italian patents as follows:orig inal patent, Reg. Att. LXIX, No. 274, Reg. Gen. XXVIII, No. 35,415,dated January 9, 1894, and patent of addition, Reg. Att. LXIX', No. 395,Beg. Gen. XXVIII, No. 35,546, dated JanuaryO, 1894,) of which thefollowing is a specitication.

This invention has reference to improvements in or relating to closets,and the like whereby .an ascending jet of water, which may be warm orcold as desired, can be directed toward the anus for the purpose ofwashing and cleaning the same after evacuation.

The invention may be applied either to siphon closets or to closets onany other system, and alsoV to commodes such as are ordinarily used byinvalids.

The apparatus employed for the purpose mentioned, comprises two vessels,one for cold water, and the other for the water intended to be heated,and pipes provided with cocks or valves whereby the water, either coldor warm as may be desired, is led to a movable pipe terminating in aspecial mouth-piece or nozzle from which the jet of 'water issues, thesaid vessels being placed at a suitable height to produce a jet ot' thedesired force.

The heating of the vwater in one of the vessels can be eiected by anysuitable source of heat such as a gas flame or a flame from a mineraloil lamp.

In the drawings Figure 1 shows partly in elevation, and partly insection, apparatus according to this invention applied to a pedestalwater closet, which is also shown in section. Fig. 2 is a front view,and Fig. 3 a side view showing the whole of the apparatus and Figs. 4and 5 are horizontal sections on the lines 0c and y y respectively ofFig. 1. Fig. 6 is a plan of the closet pan and of the arrangement ofpipes used in connection therewith. Fig. 7 is a side-view of anarrangement of pipes applied to a wooden seat. Fig. 8 is a similar viewto,

Fig. 7, showing the said pipes applied to a marble seat. Fig. 9 is alsoa similar view to Fig. 7, showing the arrangement ot pipes supported bya special bracket.

Avis a vessel for cold water, the flow of water to which is regulated bya float K.

B is a vessel reservoir for warm water, which is fed from the vessel Aby means of the siphon C. The vessel B, which is provided with athermometer for indicating the temperature of the water, may be heatedeither by a petroleum lamp E,or by the cornbustion of gas, which may besupplied from a pipe provided with a gas-cock S, and connected by anIndia rubber tube R, to a perforated burner pipe Q arranged below thebottom of the said vessel.

M is an overflow pipe attached to the vesselI B and by which excess ofwater is led away from the said vessel in the event of the siphon Cremaining open longer than is necessary to sufficiently charge the saidves-x sel with water.

I L is a discharge pipe for warm water the iow ot' which is controlledby a valve O adapted to be opened by means of a lever operated by achain P.

N is a discharge pipe for cold water. F is a two-way cock provided withan indicating needle or pointer; and serving t'or distributing asdesired the cold or the Warm water conveyed to it by the pipes N and Lrespectively.

G is v,a cock coupled ,to a movable radial discharge pipe H- carrying atits free end a mouth piece or discharge nozzle I the said cock G beingalso furnished with a needle or pointer tol indicate whether it is openor closed. The pipe H should be of a form most suitable for the closetto which it is applied. Fig. 6 shows it in full lines in a positionsnitable for use and in dotted lines in the position into which it ismoved when not required to be used. The mouth piece or hozzle'eI screwedon the end of the pipe H may be formed of any suitable material and mayhave one or more orifices of any suitable section.' vThere may, ofcourse, be several eX- changeable and diierent nozzles I lfor the sameapparatus.

supply of Water under pressure and whereby a vertically ascending jet orjets of Water een be obtained substantially as herein described for thepurpose specied.

In witness whereof I have signed this speci-` cation in presence of twowitnesses.

ANTONIO VIALE.

Witnesses:

S. B. ZANARD, CHARLES M. Woon.

